Improvement in ironing-tables



1 R. GROVESF Ironing-Tables.

No 136,056. Patented Feb.]8,1 873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Joann. eeovns, or rnenrsrown, ASSIGNOR TO ELIHU H. ROPES, 013

- ELIZABETH, .NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRQNINGTABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,056, dated February 18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN R. GROVES, of Hightstown, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Ironing-Tables and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a side view of my invention. Fig. 2 is abottom view of my ironing-board proper. Fig. 3.

is a sectional view of my invention. Fig. 4 is g a detail view.

lustrating my invention, A designates a block or stand having a pedestal or foot-piece, B. 0 indicates a dovetailed groove or recess cut in the top of the stand from side to side, and designed to receive a dovetailed block, D, attached to the under side of the ironing-board E. The recess and block are made tapering in the direction of their length. Hence, when the block is inserted at the wide end of the ecess it acts as a wedge, and is prevented from passing through said recess. A button, d, pivoted to the side of the stand A directly underneath the wide end of the recess, fits a notch, 01, cut in the wide end of the block D, and, when the ironing-board is properly arranged, prevents said block from coming out of the recess in the direction of said button.

The ironing-board may be of any size or form.

The means for securing said board to the stand have been devised in order to provide for the use of various sizes of ironing-boards, which are all to be furnished with blocks D of equal size.

The ironing-board is covered with cloth, as shown, and near one end has attached to it a pieceoLwire-cloth,F,or'its equivalent, to hold the iron and protect the wood and cloth from being burned. A hole is cut in the cloth teal.-.

low theiron to be laidon its holder.

The wire-cloth need not be secured to the wood by any rigid fastenings, but may be held in place by the covering cloth, underneath which its edges will lie.

What I claim as new is- The stand A, having the tapering dovetailed recess 0 and button d, in combination with the ironing board E, having the tapering dovetailed block D, notched at d, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of, two witnesses.

JOHN R. GROVES.

W itnesses:

JAMES M. DAVISON, WILLIAM B. SKILLMAN. 

